{"id":4044,"date":"2014-12-23T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2014-12-29T17:52:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:52:27","slug":"music-in-my-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=4044","title":{"rendered":"music in my ears"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, and the mall subtly echoes jingling melodies in every shopper\u2019s ear, it causes this semi-humble observer to pause and reflect upon the reality of the season. I actually find it fascinating, how the life and death of Jesus Christ is one of the few events in which we allow time to alter history. \u201cIt happened so long ago; we just can\u2019t know for certain,\u201d<\/em> becomes the familiar, sometimes accepted, societal refrain. And yet, we don\u2019t allow time to change the fact of the reign of the Roman Empire nor that Columbus sailed the ocean blue. The life of Jesus, however, perhaps because of how we feel<\/em> about some of his teachings, is often a fact rationalized away via the passage of time.<\/p>\n

Allow me to humbly share this day a few facts that cause me to pause — brief reasons I know he is real. I speak not from scripture itself (… which I also find to be incredibly fascinating… all the ways inspired prophecies are fulfilled hundreds of years later… so humbling and overwhelming to actually study and read… putting my predetermined opinions aside).<\/em> There are a few significant facts, no less, that strike me… even with that music in my ears:<\/p>\n